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Location: North St. Paul, MN | I will have about 200$ to spend at the Minnesota show. Here is what I have, ranging from bucktails, limited topwaters, jerkbaits (mostly phantoms :o), crankbaits, and plastics. Not pictured are my spinnerbaits, which I have a handful of M&Gs, rad dogs, and other misc. ones.
So, what I'm asking is...with my budget what would you add to the arsenal?
Thanks guys,
Steve
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Location: Appleton | If Roger from H2o Tackle is there get yourself a Hard Head looks like you could use one next to those Dawgs |
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Location: sun prairie,wi | pro-dawg
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Location: Not Where I Want To Be | 2 Hardheads
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Location: Musky Tackle Online, MN | Shows are great for picking up the hard to find stuff that you can't find the rest of the year. Whether it be certain vendors that aren't in any (or many) shops or custom colors that you won't see anywhere else. Those are the places where I've always focused on. Team Rhino's suggestion on the Hard Heads is a good one. Nice bait that can be hard to find!
Aaron
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Location: South East Wisconsin | Steve, is that my slammer drop belly in the pic I traded you? |
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | A 9 and 12" wighted Wades Wobbler, DDD's Hellhounds, Krisco's to start. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Shawn, yes it is! Going to use that a lot this summer!
I have a DDD in walleye/sucker on my short list already. Thanks guys, keep the recommendations coming!
Forgot about the cowgirl I want made up too. Black with orange fleck skirt...one gold blade, one orange blade.
Steve
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Location: In a shack in the woods | Show colors. You will be wishing you did later. I'll be at the show maybe I can help you spend some $$$. Lol
skull krave and or krisco
custom dawgs are always fun especially after they've been eaten and can't be replaced
most booths have custom colors. If you don't make your own bucktails you can have someone make any color you can conjure up. Good luck
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Location: Grand Rapids MN | Looks like you have a pretty good assortment so I would really just look at what you have and see if there are any 'holes in your game.' For instance I don't know what you have for spinnerbaits but if you don't have anything heavier or that runs a little deeper then I would pick up one or two styles to cover that range (raddogs, nutbusters, ERC).
Don't know if you troll or not but it doesn't seem like you have to many larger crankbaits. Nothing fancy but 9" Grandmas and 10" Jakes are solid producers for both methods. I would second a DDD. Awesome crank/twitcher/troller. The Krisco is also a great dual purpose lure.
Just think of times when you couldn't find that right lure that would work in the conditions faced and see if you can't find something for it. That will give you the best bang for your buck. Good luck and let's see some pics when you get your new toys. |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Targa, that's exactly what I was thinking..."filling holes." I've actually thinned the heard quite a bit over the last two seasons on the swap board and am fine tuning what I like and don't like. |
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| A certificate of deposit. |
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Location: N.FIB | I didn`t see a creeper in your baits,that would be a good one to pick up. |
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| You should get 3 DDD's  also your topwater selection could use a few baits - Water Chopper, Tidal Wave and Fish Stick HD and everyone needs a couple of topraiders |
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| Bondy Baits. Think deep. |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | For sure a few Shadillacs!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSGBgRIuUCM
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Location: South East Wisconsin | I thought that lure looked familiar! Your manta is going to get hammered this year as well! Have fun at the MN Show.
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Mike,
What colors will you have in the Shadillac at the show? How many? |
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| Two basic baits that everyone needs and everyone should have...plust they're really good for newcomers.
Kickin' Minnows - buy a few of them in the natural looking colors. Replace the red hooks with bigger hooks. They're cheap, so buy two or three of them at least. They will work everywhere.
Hell Hound - awesome jerk bait. You don't have one. You need one.
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Location: Des Moines IA | All you really need right now is a spinnerbait, learn to use the tools you presently have, find out what baits you like to fish, which also happen to catch fish, and go from there. |
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Location: Sycamore, IL | It looks like you have a good selection going! I would suggest checking out the Nutbuster spinner baits from Llungen lures...they are awesome and come in some great colors/blade combos. Also...Believers are great lures...I like the 8" ones. Have fun...
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Location: Ohio | Different depth running crank/twithch baits. Everything I see is shallow running and bigger baits in both cranks and jerk baits. |
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Location: On my favorite lake! | Looks like you need some deep ruuning crankbaits |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Here's what I got so far...
ProDawg Shallow Pounder (walleye)
Custom Cowgirl (black and orange skirt, gold and orange blade)
Shadillac (Walleye)
2 Krushers (perch and orange)
Bringing my daughter tomorrow morning to look at DDDs (Thorne's doesn't have my color) so hoping I can find one. Also going to have Garcia take a look at my Big Game.
Swap meet, I'm hoping to find a couple topwaters and maybe a grandma.
Post pictures of all the goodies Sunday!
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Location: APPLETON, WI | I would definitely utilize the show experience to add some custom colors to your arsenal. Take a couple of your favorite baits that you've got the most confidence in... and pick up some custom colors. IMO, that's the best part about the musky shows!
We can all log on to the musky websites whenever we want and order the same stuff everyone else is ordering... but the shows are the perfect time to add lures to your arsenal that not everyone is going to have access to! Use the variety to your advantage and throw some stuff that the fish haven't already seen a million times before.  |
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| i would add a couple 9 in grandmas and a jake or two |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Here's the damage done...From the MN expo, swap meet, trading on this swap board, and a new friend down the street...
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| i noticed that you have no cranks or jerks in the color of all black except the black suick.when all colors fail throw black.also no sledgehammers, here in pa we don't have the structure that you guys have out there,but when we go to canada sledges work really well,we like the 7 1/2 in grandmas for casting better than the 9"the sledges mainly the wieghted ones
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| If you got all of that for $200 you planned to spend, you got some great deals! Congrats on all the new additions. |
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Location: APPLETON, WI | wow... you added some hot stuff to your arsenal! Congrats!! |
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Location: North St. Paul, MN | Yep, kept it under the 200$ I had, actually. A few trades were thrown in the mix, but overall I think i did pretty well considering the budget. |
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